Discussion Questions 5/2/20

5/2/2020

These discussion questions are based on the sermon titled "Non-Essential".

Here are some discussion questions that you can talk about with the people that are in your home with you. You can also call a friend who was watching and discuss it with them. Or you can break out a notebook and use these questions to journal your thoughts on the message.

1. Why did Jesus say his disciples were his family?

2. Why did Jesus like using parables?

3. Why didn’t Jesus always give the moral to his parables?

4. How can you get rooted in Jesus?

5. How can the church get rooted in Jesus?

7. What are some reasons that you think people leave church?

8. How can you have joy in the midst of problems?

9. How can the church be better than what it was?

10. What is the message that God is trying to give to you from this chapter?

11. How can you apply this message to your life?

12. What practical thing can you do today to get started?

Feel free to share some of your answers in the comment section below:

17 Comments

Cora F

5/2/2020 01:03:21 pm

How can the church be better than it was ?
In a place or situation wherein the condition of stagnancy or progressive deterioration from bad to worse happen , a call for an action of change is a must , but then who will start this change ? Remember salvation is individual and so as change , change starts from an individual, no one can point a blaming finger to anyone if he or she herself didn’t start change to him or herself . Yes change in church is a collaborative effort effort but it has to have a start , and that’s is from every single individual members of the church . The Holy Spirit will give us individually the power of change if we ask for it , for we are created individually unique from each other so He knows our own strength and weaknesses to change . But yes Change in the church , from lukewarm to boiling there MUST BE .
Just my thoughts Cora f.

Wayne Jamel

5/2/2020 06:52:26 pm

Absolutely. Change must start as an individual

5/2/2020 01:18:40 pm

Change is an action, it’s a job to perform , and how many of us would love to go to church sit n enjoy sermons? but when ask to put the sermon heard into actions , listeners put excuses or just a complete different lukewarm reactions to the sermon .
Just my thoughts again Cora F.

5/2/2020 06:53:37 pm

Too often I preach a sermon and there are a bunch of Amens just to see very little action to back it up. Actions are louder than words

Michella Calix

5/2/2020 02:09:05 pm

I do see the church being better when we returned. The way I see this type of change is the same way I see how my hair changed over the years. Weird analogy, right? but it’s true. After chopping off my hair four years ago, my hair patterns, my hair density, my hair definitions, my hair porosity, my hair growth pattern all changed. It wasn’t the same as I had planned or had been ready to experience, but it was new and fun to discover. In fact, I didn’t expect to influence my family to do what I did. This gave me a second chance to learn and understand what I have done wrong or right with over the years.

We, as a church, are not just returning, but we will have the chance to reshape our church’s culture and practices; finding out what works and what doesn’t work anymore. Being ready to embrace this new change will be a sweet task; cherishing this blessing of change as an opportunity and not a season. And being an ideal essential worker for a community shouldn’t be a source of pride, but a breakthrough. We actually have a simulation of a reset button. Why wouldn’t we use it to the fullest?

Alyson

5/2/2020 06:46:14 pm

Love the hair analogy!

5/2/2020 07:18:47 pm

Hey Alyson! Thank you and Happy Sabbath.

5/2/2020 06:57:06 pm

reset button is right. What a tragedy if when the churches resume meeting in person it just back to same old same old.
Once you said mentioned your hair I already knew where you were going with this. haha I heard the presentation you did about hair at the church. Great analogy... aka parable

Joe n Cora

5/2/2020 03:39:14 pm

Yes definitely when all this social distancing and quarantine there’ll be a positive change on how we will behave as true Christians n church going people . As pastor Wayne said , when we return to church after this Covid it will be “moving onward n forward. “ No going backward maybe just to look back the mistakes we did to our church in the past and how we will learn from these mistakes , and from there it will be Onward forward Christian soldiers .

Michelle Calix

5/2/2020 04:35:43 pm

Amen brother Joe. I am with you on walking onward and forward! This is a change for the better.

5/2/2020 04:37:27 pm

I misspell my own name lol Auto correct I promise

5/2/2020 06:58:28 pm

haha MichellE

5/2/2020 06:47:17 pm

Good points to ponder

5/2/2020 06:58:00 pm

Perfectly said Joe N Cora.

Joe

5/2/2020 03:46:05 pm

How blessed YSDAChurch for having a hard working Pastor as pastor Wayne . So young but so mature in his passion to serve God .

5/2/2020 06:51:02 pm

Amen brother Joe! I believe he is doing the true work of God. Young and yet powerful.

5/2/2020 06:58:57 pm

Oh wow thank you. That is so nice for you to say.

Discussion Questions 5/2/20

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